Thread: Pre baiting 1080

Originally Posted by Woody

Depends. Possum moves seasonally and with changeing food availability; also with attrition of resident animals from an area /locale. Strategies using traps can be applied over months rather than hours can be identified.

Perhaps, actually come to think of it nah I don't believe ground traps is even a viable option. Having ventured in there myself recently, its thick in places and steep. The under storey was dead (no seedlings or new growth), and bird life virtually 1/4 of what it should be. Saw 2 stoats in just three days there and multiple possums in the day time. Plenty of feathers scattered around the place. I don't like 1080 as much as the next guy, but there are times and places where you either sit back on the anti-1080 wagon and watch your biodiversity crumble, or you do something (if deer are caught in the cross-fire so be it).